Meaning of temple of immensity | Babel Free

Definitions

The universe or the complete overhead expanse of the heavens, especially as conceived as an object of religious reverence.

archaic, idiomatic

Examples

“[T]his poor Cordwainer, as we said, was a Man; and the Temple of Immensity, wherein as Man he had been sent to minister, was full of holy mystery to him.”

“They reminded him of a man who should, after climbing a lofty mountain—whence, as from a pinnacle of the great temple of immensity, earth, and the deep blues of air, and the everlasting brine of ocean were beheld—should turn⟳ away from the prospect.”

“. . . heavenly messengers, travelling through wide fields to explore⟳ the mysteries of creation, carrying intelligence from outpost to outpost of God's universe, his ministers to do his pleasure, and announcing their advent, or bestowing their blessing, as they speed⟳ their onward course, in a halo of glory, filling the temple of immensity with their train⟳.”

“The De Immensa is . . . a prolonged hymn of wonder⟳ and praise⟳ and intellectual exaltation, sung in the temple of immensity.”

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